Video Therapy with Residential Children Having Profound Trauma Histories
Posted by Craig Steinberg In the video therapy group, each child created, directed, and filmed their own video documentary to help them process past trauma and abuse in terms of past, present, and future. Each child wrote a storybook/screenplay/script to help them guide their video and then they shot their video over several weeks. In addition to themselves, other kids and the co-therapists and staff functioned as actors in the kids' videos if the kids requested them to play particular roles. The video therapy group became a rather intense form of psychodrama, trauma recovery therapy, and use of narrative therapy. It was a very powerful and healing group, indeed! It was amazing how much empathy each child had for one another during the sharing and acting/filming portions of the group. I plan on doing another video therapy group in the fall. I will also be doing more phototherapy groups within the next year, as well. If you're interested in conversing and have ideas to share, post it to the group and/or my personal email....Craig Steinberg
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Re: Video Therapy with Residential Children Having Profound Trauma Histories
Posted by Judy Weiser, Grp Administrator I know that you and I have individually corresponded about your projects "back-channel" (one-to-one), but in reviewing messages on this page, I realized that perhaps other readers might benefit from knowing about some of the early resources that exist re: VideoTherapy (which, as you yourself know, I used to teach over 20 years ago..). So I'm using this response to your message to provide a small list of some of the earliest publications about using Video in, or as, therapy -- and maybe if other readers have more recent publications to recommend, they will hopefully add them by replying to this message. here's all the (early) ones I'm aware of -- including some that I myself authored (all include mention of use of video in/as therapy, though not all the titles include the word "video" itself): **VideoTherapy Bibliography** Berger, Milton M., Ed. (1978). Videotape Techniques in Psychiatric Training and Treatment. New York: Brunner/Mazel. Dowrick, Peter W., and Biggs, Simon J., Eds. (1983). Using Video: Psychological and Social Applications. New York: John Wiley. Fryrear, Jerry L., and Fleshman, Bob, Eds. (1981). Videotherapy in Mental Health. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas. Heilveil, Ira. (1983). Video in Mental Health Practice: An Activities Handbook. New York: Springer. ARTICLES: Alger, Ian. (1973). Audio-Visual Techniques in Family Therapy. In D. Bloch, D. (Ed.), Techniques of Family Therapy: A Primer. (pp. 65-73). New York: Grune & Stratton. Alger, Ian. (1971). Insight and Involvement in Individual Therapy Through Videotape Confrontation. Science and Psychoanalysis, 18, 20-25. Arbus, Jeffrey. (1984). Videotape Feeback: A Tool in Counselor Education. Phototherapy, 4:1, 2-6. Corbit, Irene E., and Fryrear, Jerry L. (1985). Visual transitions: Metaphor for change. Phototherapy, 4:3, 5-9. Evans, Gerald S.; Fryrear, Jerry L.; and Corbit, Irene E. (1989). Visual Transitions as Therapy. Art Therapy, 6:2, 57-66. Fryrear, Jerry L. (1983). Photographic self-confrontation as therapy. In: Krauss, D. A., and Fryrear, J. L. (Eds.), Phototherapy in mental health (pp. 71-94). Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas. Fryrear, Jerry L. (1982). Visual self-confrontation as therapy. Phototherapy, 3:1, 11-12. Fryrear, Jerry L. and Stephens, Bill C. (1988). Group psychotherapy using masks and video to facilitate intrapersonal commmunication. The Arts in Psychotherapy. 15:3, 227-234. Furman, Lou. (1990). Video therapy: An alternative for the treatment of adolescents. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 17:2, 165-170. Hinz, Lisa D., and Ragsdell, Vicki. (1990). Brief report: Using masks and video in group psychotherapy with bulimics. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 17:3, 259-263. Holzman, P. S. (1969). On hearing and seeing oneself. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 148:3, 198-209. Lambert, Marie. (1988). Improving self esteem through Photo/Videotherapy: A graduate project. Unpublished Paper: University of Houston at Clear Lake. Nathan, D.J. (1978). The use of self-confrontation through photography or videotape as a therapeutic method fo changing self image and aiding weight maintenance in formerly obese adults. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Miami, (Dissertation Abstracts International, 39:11, 6659A). Sussman, Gilbert. (1987). Two classroom projects: Self-concept enhancement and video-poetry project. Phototherapy, 6:2, 23-24. Weiser, Judy. (1985). Training and teaching photo and video therapy: Central themes, core knowledge, and important considerations. Phototherapy , 4:4, 9-16. Weiser, Judy. (1986a). Ethical considerations in PhotoTherapy training and practice. Phototherapy, 5:1, 12-17. Weiser, Judy. (1986b). Ethical considerations in PhotoTherapy training and practice. Video-Informationen, 9:2, 5-10. Weiser, Judy. (1988a). "See what I mean?" Photography as nonverbal communication in cross-cultural psychology. In: Poyatos, Fernando (Ed.), Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Nonverbal Communication (pp. 245-290). Toronto: Hogrefe. Weiser, Judy. (1988b). PhotoTherapy: Using snapshots and photo-interactions in therapy with youth. In: Schaefer, Charles (Ed.), Innovative Interventions in Child and Adolescent Therapy (pp. 339-376). New York: Wiley.
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Re: Video Therapy with Residential Children Having Profound Trauma Histories
Posted by Natalie Carlton I am researching some of you rwriting and finding due to presenting in October on "Video self stories" and use with clinets. Thank you for this awesome bibliography, it has led me to sources I was not finding initially.
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Posted by Judy Weiser, Grp Administrator including my own, today, where I describe some of my OWN early work using Video as an active "co-therapist" in my counseling work. I don't want to duplicate the posting here, but there's a lot of info in my message there, which might be of use re: using the video in therapy, along with some very interesting postings by others there, about their use of it "as" therapy. That thread is titled "Re: Therapeutic Videography" and the first posting was in October 2002 Judy (Weiser)
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Re: Video Therapy with a child war survivor with PTSD
Posted by Rachel O'Rourke First I want to thank you both for posting these messages. Craig your work sounds amazing and Judy I use your book on phototherapy constantly in my practice as an art therapist. I wanted to let you both know about an article I wrote in 2001 based on my video therapy work with a child war survivor suffering with PTSD. Here is the online link to the article "Anya's Movies. (Project Statement).(environmental video therapy for treating children's traumatic memories)" I'm working on another article based on my current video therapy work with girls with eating disorders. There is a lack of current literature and conversation regarding video therapy, so thank you both for your postings. I am very interested in an ongoing dialogue and Judy I am wondering if you have considered editing or writing a current book on video therapy? I would love to work on a project to get a range of voices published on this form of therapy. Thanks,
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Re: Video Therapy with a child war survivor with PTSD
Posted by Pieter Pienaar (South Africa) I am currently working on a thesis in South Africa in which I am going to attempt to use video as in integrating medium in counseling people in need of self-insight. I will try to follow the link given in the above text. But I am seriously considering referring to your completed works/articles about video. I am struggling to find current video work to refer to. Thanks to Judy's website, we can meet! Pieter Pienaar
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